Lausanne Metro M2

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Re: Lausanne Metro M2

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We're also going to need something to tow trains out of the workshop (no powerrail there...) ;) ;
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Re: Lausanne Metro M2

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A Mercedies-Benz Unimog! That'll be the first road vehicle to drive in MSB, it can be useful elsewhere :D
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That is just... AMAZING ! :shock:
You've made such a beautiful work on this map, I'm really hyped to see it by myself on the simulator :D
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Well well... wasn't expecting to see anything resembling a road vehicle ever in MSB.

Maybe it's time to open a page for this game on the IGCD website :lol: :twisted:
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It's still a railvehicle in the simulator (so the steering wheel is not functional); as you can see it does have small wheels to keep it on the track.
There is also an Unimog present on this track in Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Fb3YQXErp1qthCjt7

There are no power-rails in the workshop, so for the simulator, the choise was to either define a dummy (invisible but functional) powersupply to those tracks (so you can drive back out without help), or add a shunting engine to the simulator. Google maps shows they have an Unimog, so I guess that's how they do it. So I went for the more realistic solution. ;)

An alternative way of doing it might be to have a long extension cord which you couple to the train in the workshop, long enough to supply power for the train to drive out, and then uncouple it again once the train comes in contact with the powerrails outside. But I could not find any information relating to this, so I guess the Unimog is the simpeler solution.
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I know, I wasn't expecting the Unimog to be anything other than a funny, interesting piece of rolling stock.
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Very nice :D
- Likes London Underground
- Somehow relates anything to trains
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Re: Lausanne Metro M2

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Wouldn't this also make cars possible by placing rails under the roads? :shock:
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Technically, there is very little difference between a track section and a road section in the simulator ;)
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Sjoerd wrote: 28 Nov 2022, 21:20 Technically, there is very little difference between a track section and a road section in the simulator ;)
Ah yes indeed :mrgreen:
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